There is an issue with the default svg device on a centos workstation that I am using. It does not result in an error, but it produces malformed svg images. Exactly the same script works just fine on an ubuntu box. On Ubuntu I am using R binary that comes with maverick, on centos I am using the latest R binary from EPEL. Other than that both boxes are pretty clean, with only the dependencies installed that are automatically installed when installing R.
For example a testscript like this svg("plot.svg"); plot(cars); dev.off(); should produce this: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/files/plot_good.svg (ubuntu), but on centos it produces this: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/files/plot_bad.svg. It looks very much as if there is something wrong with the fronts; maybe I am missing some library. However, as this is a production server, I don't want to go install random packages to see if this fixes the problem. Some questions: - How could I fix it? - Why is R not throwing an error instead of producing a malformed plot? - Maybe we could notify the R binary maintainers from fedora to add a formal dependency so that it works 'out of the box'? Jeroen -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/svg-malformed-on-CentOS-epel-R-tp3352949p3352949.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.